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Do they have secret APIs the rest of us plebes don't get?
by trelane 4y ago
Do they have secret APIs the rest of us plebes don't get?
- nicoburns 4y agoNo, they just focus on power consumption more than the other browsers (they also have the advantage of not needing to work cross-platform, making this easier). This is often why Safari is behind other browsers on features: a focus on quality of implementation of quantity of features.
- trelane 4y agoSource?
- JamesSwift 4y agoI also would want a source for that. At least in the mobile dev space, it has always been common practice for them to leverage private APIs to do things regular app devs cant.
- nicoburns 4y ago> At least in the mobile dev space, it has always been common practice for them to leverage private APIs to do things regular app devs cant. On mobile (iOS), yes. But power consumption comparisons tend to be on desktop (macOS) because the other browsers can't run on iOS at all. And I don't think Apple can enforce that API privacy on macOS because they unlike iOS they allow apps to be installed from outside the App Store.
- selectodude 4y agohttps://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/10/10/improving-firefox-responsiveness-on-macos/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/10/10/improving-firefox-respons... Firefox has constantly been sussing out private APIs that Safari uses to improve battery life on macOS.